Instant Nancy Web Development

By Christian Horsdal

In Detail

Nancy is a C# web framework which aims to provide you ,the application developer, with an easy path to follow, where things will naturally fall into place and work. Nancy is a powerful, flexible, and lightweight web framework that allows you to get on with your job.

Instant Nancy Web Development will give Readers practical introduction to building, testing, and deploying web applications with Nancy. You will learn how to take full advantage of Nancy to build clean application code, and will see how this code lends itself nicely to test driven development. You will also learn how to hook into Nancy to easily extend the framework.

Instant Nancy Web Development offers you an in-depth exploration of all the major features of the Nancy web framework, from basic routing to deployment in the Cloud, and from model binding to automated tests.

You will learn how to build web applications with Nancy and explore how to build web sites using Razor views. Next, you will learn how to build web based APIs suitable for JavaScript clients, mobile clients, and even desktop applications. In fact, you will learn how to easily combine the two into one.

Finally, you will learn how to leverage Nancy to write clean and maintainable web applications quickly.

Approach

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A practical, step-by-step guide featuring recipes that will get you up and running quickly with Nancy.

Who this book is for

If you are a .NET oriented web developer who is curious to find out what lies beyond the Microsoft provided frameworks, then this book is for you! It's beneficial to have a good knowledge of C# and .NET, as well as a basic working knowledge of HTTP. If testability is important to you, and you're looking for a lightweight, code focused approach to building web applications, this book offers you all the guidance that you will need.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Sep 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781783283927

Christian Horsdal

"Christian Horsdal is an independent consultant working with clients as an architect, consultant, and developer. He works with clients of all types, from small start-ups to large global companies. Christian is an expert .NET architect and developer who mixes and matches commercial, open source, and tailor-made components in a quest to create simple and lean solutions that allow for quick and agile development. Christian can be found online through his website http://www.horsdal-consult.dk/."

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Table of Contents

Instant Nancy Web Development

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

Style matters

The super duper happy path

Sweet spot

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Instant Nancy Web Development

Building and running your first Nancy application (Simple)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Nancy testing – your first Nancy tests (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Routes and model binding (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Taking a dependency – introducing the bootstrapper (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Content negotiation and more model binding (Advanced)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding views (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Adding static content (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

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Hosting Nancy on the Cloud (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

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Handling cross-cutting concerns – Before, After, and Error hooks (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

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Authenticating users (Intermediate)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

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Separating applications and hosting (Advanced)

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using async handlers (Advanced)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

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Instant Nancy Web Development

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Instant Nancy Web Development

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About the Author

Christian Horsdal is an independent consultant working with clients as an architect, consultant, and developer. He works with clients of all types, from small start-ups to large global companies.

Christian is an expert .NET architect and developer who mixes and matches commercial, open source, and tailor-made components in a quest to create simple and lean solutions that allow for quick and agile development.

Christian can be found online through his website http://www.horsdal-consult.dk/.

About the Reviewer

Michele Capra is an Italian software consultant, international speaker, and trainer on software development with Microsoft Technologies. He got his master's degree in Software Engineering in 2009 after working as a visiting researcher at Trinity College of Dublin. In the same year, he started working in the software industry and took part in a wide variety of software projects. He has been working for several financial institutions such as banks and funds, as well as start-ups. In these projects, he had the opportunity to learn and practice agile methodologies, for example, Test Driven Development, as well as to study Microsoft Technologies such as WPF, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Phone, and WinRT.

During his career, he has been speaking at several local .NET user-group events (such as WebAPI CodeCage, Windows Phone Refresh, C# Unleashed) as well as national (for example, WhyMCA) and international conferences (for example, Codemotion Berlin).

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